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While serving in the gulf, Cpl. Aylor worked with doctors and medics at Marine headquarters, though first aid wasn’t his only responsiblity. His battalion was one of the first to cross over into Kuwait.
“I asked him if he had fired his gun,” his mother said, adding he answered “yes.” He also said he had seen “action” on his front line base. “I didn’t ask him anymore,” Mrs. Aylor said, adding he probally would not have been able to say much more.
Communication is limited with soliders serving in the war. Letters from home could take a month in arriving; letters from a solider could take two weeks to a month to reach their destination, stateside.
“He told me when he called that Old Pops is not forgotten,” Mrs. Aylor said with pride. Letters from home poured into his gulf postbox, keeping him posted on current social events at home and giving him a temporary escape.
“The kids sent him pictures they made. People from the schools, the churches, friends and neighbors all wrote to him,” Mrs. Aylor said, adding she could “go on for hours” concerning all the people who had corresponded with Pops. “It makes me feel real good, too,” she concluded.
‘Things like that help me to survive,” she said, adding “the support she received from the community helped to keep her spirits up.”
Marine L.Cpl. Steve Roland “is there and can’t get home,” his father Gary Roland of Chester Gap said with some sadness. “He called about two weeks ago and said he was going to be home the following week,” Mr. Roland said.
L.Cpl. Roland has been in the gulf since early September. Before leaving for the Persian Gulf conflict he was stationed in Japan on maneuvers. “Come April, he will have been
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